God’s Gingerbread Man (Run as fast as you can)
As a young child my grandmother use to set me on her knee and read to me a story entitled “The Gingerbread Man”.
Today I will try to engulf your attention by using a narration of The Gingerbread Man.
God in his infinite wisdom decided he would stoop to the earth and form man in his image and likeness. He created
them, male and female. God’s ingredient was love, joy, peace, faith, longsuffering, gentleness, meekness, goodness
and temperance thus God have formed his own Gingerbread Man. But this man was lifeless. So God breathed into
his nostrils the breath of life and the Gingerbread Man became alive.
Immediately, the fox (Satan) saw this Gingerbread Man and decided, he wanted to eat him up. So he began to entice
him with other ingredients. Where God gave him love, Satan offered him hate. Where God gave him joy, Satan
offered him sadness. Where God gave him peace, Satan offered him the ways of war. Where God gave him faith,
Satan offered him doubt. Where God gave him longsuffering (patience), Satan offered him a quick fix. Where God
gave him gentleness, Satan offered him roughness. Where God gave him meekness, Satan offered arrogance.
Where God gave him goodness, Satan offered him violence. Where God gave him temperance, Satan offered him
short temperance.
God placed the Gingerbread Man in the oven (life) and the Gingerbread Man began to solidify and stood up and
began to run. An inner voice (conscience) began say “Run Gingerbread Man, run as fast as you can, run to your
heavenly father who is a strong tower where the righteous can run into and be safe.” “Run Gingerbread Man, run as
fast as you can, to the Author and Finisher of your faith.” “Run Gingerbread Man, run as fast as you can, to that
Rock that is higher than I.”
So the Gingerbread Man began to realize that he had a race to run. And that he had to press to the mark of the high
calling, which is in Christ Jesus.
Christian Brothers and Sisters, are you the Gingerbread Man? Are you running as fast as you can to secure a place
in the Kingdom of God ? Run Gingerbread Man while it is light for in the darkness you may meet the fox (Satan) for in
Satan there is no light at all.